Combined step and end-gate



(No Model.)

B. R. FISH.

COMBINED STEP AND END GATE.

No. 325,665. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COMBlNED STEP AND END-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,665, dated September 8, 1885. Application tiled April 9, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN It. FISH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Combined Step and End-Gate, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in end-gates for wagons, and more particularly to that class in which the endgate is capable of serving a secondary object without impairing its functions as an end-gate; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide a convenient step upon the rear end of wagons; second, to provide a suitable end-gate for the rear end of wagons; and, third, to so combine said step and end-gate that they shallform one piece, to be used in either capacity at the will of the operator. I attain these objects by means of the mechanism illustrated in the ac companying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the rear end of wagon with end-gate closed, the dotted'lines showing the position when open, the end-gate serving as a step. Fig. 2 is a front view of wagon with end-gate closed, showing the position of the irons which support it. Fig. 3 is one of the irons which support the step and end-gate in its various positions; and Fig. 4 is one of theloops which are fastened underneath the wagon, and through which Fig. 3 passes.

Similar" characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views. Y

The end-gate D is held in position by the bent irons 3 3, which are secured to the wagon by passing through the loops '4 4, which are fastened under the wagon by bolts a a.

To open the end-gate and form a step, the end-gate D is drawn out until the curves 0 c in the irons 3 3 come in contact with the loops 4 4, when it is turned to the position shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and is held in position by the lugs B B and the arms E E of irons 3 3.

To close the end gate, the gate D is turned up until the arms E E of irons 3 3 are in a vertical position, then pushed up to the wagon, and held in place by the ordinary fastenings.

The unhinged endgate D, secured to the wagon by means of the bent arms 3 3 and the loops44, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

EDWIN R. FISH.

\Vitnesses:

WILL R. OMOHUNDRO, J Imus W. NEWBURN. 

